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atitude swelled my heart; and I knelt down at the bedside; and offered up thanks where thanks were due; not forgetting; ere I rose; to implore aid on my further path; and the power of meriting the kindness which seemed so frankly offered me before it was earned。 My couch had no thorns in it that night; my solitary room no fears。 At once weary and content; I slept soon and soundly: when I awoke it was broad day。

The chamber looked such a bright little place to me as the sun shone in between the gay blue chintz window curtains; showing papered walls and a carpeted floor; so unlike the bare planks and stained plaster of Lowood; that my spirits rose at the view。 Externals have a great effect on the young: I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me; one that was to have its flowers and pleasures; as well as its thorns and toils。 My faculties; roused by the change of scene; the new field offered to hope; seemed all astir。 I cannot precisely define what they expected; but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or that month; but at an indefinite future period。

I rose; I dressed myself with care: obliged to be plain—for I had no article of attire that was not made with extreme simplicity—I was still by nature solicitous to be neat。 It was not my habit to be disregardful of appearance or careless of the impression I made: on the contrary; I ever wished to look as well as I could; and to please as much as my want of beauty would permit。 I sometimes regretted that I was not handsomer; I sometimes wished to have rosy cheeks; a straight nose; and small cherry mouth; I desired to be tall; stately; and finely developed in figure; I felt it a misfortune that I was so little; so pale; and had features so irregular and so marked。 And why had I these a